Re: [PMH] Re: [Nautilus-list] Idea for Nautilus and GMC.

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Thu, 24 May 2001, Ian Peters wrote:

> Have you used fakeroot before?  That's exactly what it does, and it
> seems to work fine.

Attached is a program to let everyone edit /etc/passwd.

        cc -c t.S
        ld -o t t.o

The two problems with fakeroot for security are that it assumes everything
uses ld.so, and it assumes everything makes system calls by going through
the regular libc wrapper functions.

-- Elliot
A fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first place.
        (WC Fields)

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